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It stands to reason that the process of privatization must be accelerated. Good laws have been passed in Russia although they were prepared in a different situation. The meaning of these laws is that the whole process is divided into two verticals. One vertical is headed by the Committee of Management of the State Property and the other by the State Fund of Property. The former is occupied with preparing the state enterprises for privatization, their estimation, the alteration of their organizational and legal forms, i.e., their transformation into joint stock companies, different kinds of partnerships, etc. Such a preparation is necessary since we have never thought of collective shared forms of property when every working man must have an individual part to play, this part often being in the form of a share. When an enterprise is ready for privatization, the right to its property is passed on to the second fund, that of the federal property which sells it to a joint-stock company, or to some person, or to some other participants of the competition. An avalanche nationalization, as a result of which everything will be divided, is not admissible. This will not be the privatization. Certain conditions of its introduction into practice must be found under which the labor collectives would not suffer losses. Some other variants also exist. Even today many people, more than 12 million in Russia, work at rented enterprises. Some of the working collectives managed to include into the license contract the condition concerning the right of a subsequent redemption. Some other collectives do not have such a right This situation is preserved in the recently passed law. A corresponding change must be introduced into it so that all enterprises possess this right. The collectives that have rented their enterprises are the closest to their privatization, and if all the 12 million workers of these enterprises buy them out a considerable number of private owners would appear. All this means that liberalization, privatization, the improvement of the financial situation and other elements of the reform must be carried out fast, and possibly simultaneously. The privatization is a reform reckoned for a long period. Let us compare the situation in our country with that in the USA since we consider their model of democracy to be the closest to our conditions in many respects, which we shall not discuss here. In the USA, the state property constitutes 7% and in our country 93%. Dozens of years must evidently pass before we arrive at the required conditions. The time is not ripe now even to speak of this. We must discuss another thing. The privatization means the selling of the whole state property to people or companies, or giving it away free of charge. But there is an intermediate position, namely, a change in the organizational and legal setup of an enterprise. Suppose an enterprise remains a collective property. It must then only be given a different organizational and legal form. According to the decision of the work collective, it may become a joint-stock company of an open or closed type. The workers evaluate the enterprise and can sell shares themselves, approve the articles of their association determining who can buy the shares and how many, and define other rules. The members of the association can declare a competition and hire a director according to the standard state contract into which they can introduce their own requirement to their head. 1 0 7